Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to eliminate rough sleeping in the Birmingham City Council area.

On his first day in office the Prime Minister launched an urgent national drive to end rough sleeping at the earliest opportunity. We are providing £442 million new funding to local areas through a new Rough Sleeping Programme to ensure that everyone who needs it is offered a route off the streets before Christmas this year, while providing longer-term accommodation and support for people with the most complex and long-term experiences of rough sleeping.

Funding has been targeted towards areas with the greatest rough sleeping pressures, while giving Mayoral Strategic Authorities and local authorities flexibility to shape services around local needs and priorities. A full breakdown of allocations of funding, including for West Midlands Combined Authority, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rough-sleeping-programme. MHCLG will continue to work closely with the Mayoral Strategic Authority and Birmingham City Council to develop plans for accommodation and support provision through the Programme.

These measures build on the Government's wider action to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, and take total investment in homelessness and rough sleeping services over the next three years to more than £4 billion. Further details of the Government's most recent measures are set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 1 September 2026 (HCWS300).